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THE Public Theater’s star-studded preview production of Shakespeare in the Park’s “Romeo and Juliet” ended in fiasco Tuesday night when it started pouring midway into the second act. Most guests at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park – including Alan Alda, Debra Messing, Nora Ephron, Cynthia Nixon, Mike Nichols, Candice Bergen and Bob Pittman – had not brought umbrellas and created “utter pandemonium” scrambling for the exits, one attendee reports. However, hotelier Andre Balazs came prepared and gallantly proffered his ‘brella to a puffy-lipped Meg Ryan. Meanwhile, many elegantly dressed theatergoers had to limp their wet way to the subway as “there were no taxis and no one could find their cars – it was a real mess,” another witness said. [More on the production: Page 76]